President Bola Tinubu, Wednesday approved the reappointment of Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi as the Director General of the National Information Development Agency (NITDA), from 2023 to 2027.
Inuwa is one of the Chief Executives of Agencies under the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, who are returned to office.
His reappointment was initially granted in January 2023 by former President Muhammadu Buhari who said he reappointed Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi as DG of NITDA due to the agency’s remarkable successes.
As the Director General of NITDA, Inuwa has proved that Nigeria can be Africa’s largest digital economy.
Since ascending the leadership of NITDA in August 2019, there has been an impressive implementation of the Agency’s Strategic Roadmap for the development of Nigeria’s IT sector.
He has been steadily building upon the foundation laid by the previous occupants of that office, driving the Agency to fulfil its core mandate in consonance with the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) of the Federal Government.
To put Nigeria on a path to effectively operate a digital economy, NITDA, under the stewardship of Kashifu Inuwa mapped out a Strategic Roadmap and Action Plan (SRAP 2021-2024), identified by the Agency as the fulcrum digital economy development.
In his numerous public presentations, Inuwa has spoken extensively about the pillars captured in the SRAP, namely Developmental Regulation; Digital Literacy and Skills; Digital Transformation; Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Cybersecurity; Emerging Technologies; and Promotion of Indigenous Content.
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